synesthesia

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(I don't know if synesthesia is a psychological condition so if I should move it, please feel free to tell me)

if you have synesthesia, describe what kind you have and how it effects you

for me, I have grapheme-color (letters,numbers,days,month,words have a color) and pain-color, number-personification, number-gender,and object-personification.

my favorite number is 3, because he's shy and sweet.and he's orange, which is my favorite color. I like the personality of my cofie table.she's sweet and caring. I enjoy head-aches because there's gorgeous green-yellow,even though it hurts.

I love synesthesia for the most part. Sometimes the colors I see are indescribable. Like the name kaitlyn is orange with green and yellow mixed in. Or 8 is purple-red.
it helps me remember things, like what number my hotel room number was because I remember the colors.

the only time it gets annoying is when I have sensory overloads (I have aspergers)

how does synesthesia effect you?

I have grapheme-colour synaesthesia. It doesn't affect me too much, just in small ways, e.g. I sometimes get people's names mixed up, calling them by a name that is a similar colour; once at work I said "red" instead of "two" and got a weird look.

I also have spatial-sequence synaesthesia. I never really thought about it affecting me, as I assumed for most of my life that everybody visualised timelines in the same way I do. It's more a case of not being able to live without it, e.g. I have no idea how I could remember what I did last weekend if I couldn't actually see the week there in front of me, and 'go to it'.

I have ticker-tape synesthesia, where whenever I hear something I see words flash in front of my mind's eye like words on a page. Different conversations have different background colors. I'm an associator - generally, the more interesting a conversation is, the more of my favorite shades the background color will be. The words are always black, though. Listening to someone talk can be like reading a book if I'm paying attention to it.

It affects me in three main ways. First, I HAVE to take notes when I'm in class, because with all those words flying by, I can't keep the main points in my head.
Second, learning a foreign language with a different alphabet is easy, as long as I don't see any transliterations. Then, the transliteration instead of the new alphabet will be what I see when I hear the word.
Last, it really doesn't help my literal thinking. I have Asperger's, and I'm already literal, but when I see the words of slang, it makes the literal-ness worse. I don't know how to describe it. It's like an extra step in decoding the meaning..

But, I love it, because I can learn a bunch of languages and alphabets without having to associate vocab with pictures. I can also memorize things easier, because I see ("read") it every time I say it.

When you get angry do you see any red color?

My synesthesia is related to music, specifically two note intervals, for example the perfect 6th is the most glorious purple and wonderfully desolate while a major 7th is yellow and yearning....it doesnt occur in any other situations for me, although i wish it did because I crave strong emotional responses